> From: Nick Hilliard <nick(_at_)inex(_dot_)ie>
> 12 computing environments, all of which are out of date by at least
> 3 years, and you can only afford one week every year for managing
> updates - which is enough time to update exactly one installation.
> ...
> Please excuse my naivety. I'm new around here.
If there's any activity more boring, and less truly productive, than
updating to the latest rev of a software environment, I'd like to know
what it is.
I have a long list of things that seem to me like a better use of my time,
including:
- working on new networking architectures
- going for a walk with my dogs
- studying woodblock prints to update the online catalog raisonnes I'm
working on for a couple of major Japanese woodblock artists
- listening to music (baroque, jazz, etc, etc)
- etc, etc, etc, etc.
Somehow I doubt that on their deathbed (to paraphrase an old aphorism)
anyone's going to be saying 'Gee, I wish I'd spent more of my time in this
realm installing Service Pack 7 of Microsloth Defenstrator'.
<Stomps off.>
Noel
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